For colored girls

For colored girls

"A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a w...

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Main Author: Zigman, Aaron (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm), Tyler Perry Studios (Firm)
Other Authors: Jackson, Janet, 1966- (Actor), Devine, Loretta (Actor), Ealy, Michael (Actor), Elise, Kimberly, 1971- (Actor), Hardwick, Omari, 1974- (Actor), Harper, Hill, 1966- (Actor), Newton, Thandie, 1972- (Actor), Rashad, Phylicia, 1948- (Actor), Rose, Anika Noni, 1972- (Actor), Thompson, Tessa, 1983- (Actor), Washington, Kerry, 1977- (Actor), Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955- (Actor), Gray, Macy (Actor), Kain, Khalil (Actor), Lawson, Richard (Actor), Areu, Ozzie (Producer), Bobb, Roger M., 1967- (Producer), Hall, Paul (Producer), Perry, Tyler (Screenwriter, Producer, Director), Gruszynski, Alexander (Cinematographer), Hoy, Maysie (Film editor), Shange, Ntozake.
Language:English
Subjects:
Shange, Ntozake > Film adaptations.
African American women > Drama.
African American women > Social conditions > Drama.
African American families > Social conditions > Drama.
American fiction > Film adaptations.
Summary:"A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world"--Container.
Item Description:Based on the stage play entitled "For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf" written by Ntozake Shange.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010.
Special features: Interactive features: Span of the rainbow [interactive documentary]; Prism of poems; Transformation: movie magic making "For Colored Girls" [featurette] (15 min.); Music "For Colored Girls [music videos] (9 min.); Marketing archive: Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Living portraits; Art gallery [slide show]; Also from Lionsgate (4 min.).
Physical Description:1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; Region 1; 5.1 Dolby Digital EX surround; widescreen presentation (aspect ratio 1.78:1).
Audience:MPAA rating: Rated R for some disturbing violence including a rape, sexual content and language.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Alexander Gruszynski ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; music, Aaron Zigman ; production designer, Ina Mayhew ; costume designer, Johnetta Boone ; executive producers, Ozzie Areu, Joseph P. Genier, Nzingha Stewart, Michael Paseornek.
Published: Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2011]
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